So, our week started with the great battle of Pikachu and the Dinosaur. I'm pretty sure that Pikachu won, he was definitely more energetic.
We babysat Parks while his Dad went in for a job interview and were rewarded with a nice lunch.
Which then resulted in Mimi fiddling with pictures, for kicks and giggles.
On Tuesday I worked, having traded away my Thursday. Dad came by afterwards and we headed to the Ruth to see Fiddler on the Roof. These three Barbershoppers were there at the same time, but had come to see, not surprisingly, Forever Plaid, the play about a Barbershop Quartet. I thought it would be fun to have them sing but since there were 3 basses and a baritone, so it didn't work out.
Here are Dad and me. We have season tickets with just the Heuers this year, and they have gone to Florida for NASCAR racing and Disney World and seeing rockets being launched. So much fun.
But Eva was also having fun with a Monkey sitting on her head, though she doesn't look too happy about it.
But she looks pretty happy here.
I worked again on Wednesday. This gal came in with her colored bead necklace, and when I complimented it, she gave me one. How nice is she?
After work we met up with Dave and Adi at Chili's in Spanish.
That was a lot of fun.
On Thursday Dad was off to the temple, while I worked on cleaning up in the library and shelving books, before putting away some accumulated craft items in my room of requirement. I will be doing more in there during the coming weeks. It's gotten to a ridiculous degree of disorganization.
We got the sad news that day that Andy's youngest brother Brian passed away Thursday morning. It's so hard when someone so young passes, but we know he had been in so much pain as he dealt with his cancer, we have to be grateful that he is beyond that.
On Friday my cousin Debbie came and picked me up on her way to Marysvale, which is two hours south of here. A couple of years ago Dad and I went to Marysvale to stay at the Inn that LaVern and Ron Crumps' daughter Julie owns. I had no idea at that time that I had a first cousin buried there. Here my artist cousin takes pictures in the Big Rock Candy Mountain area. We were both fascinated with the multiple-colored stone.
We went down for our cousin Beki Knott's burial. Beki had lived in Corona California for many years. Dad and I even stopped there once on our way home from one of our family trips to California. Her Dad, Erling, is my Aunt LaRee's middle child, so we are first cousins. He married Jesse, who grew up in Marysvale, and was, in the end, buried there.
Their whole family is together again, since Erling and Jesse, and their son were already there. Beki passed away last month, and my Cousin Mike (Debbie's brother) was in charge of seeing to her burial there. Beki had her funeral in Covina at the ward there in California. Mike dedicated the grave as he and his wife live about an hour and a half south of Marysvale. I met Deana last year after Debbie and Mike's Dad, Charles, passed away. They had a family farewell service at one of Mike's children's homes in Herriman.
Here is Mike, his wife Deana, Debbie and me.
We all went to a place for lunch while they buried her. It was decorated in Steam Punk, which was surprising, but a lot of fun for me.
Can you see the steam punk decor behind us here?
The pizza was very good.
Then it was back to the cemetery to place flowers.
On the way home Debbie and I stopped in Richfield to visit the DI there, and I found this sweet little Dutch girl who wanted to come home with me. How perfect is she here with our Danish dishes? She was made in Pasadena, which like Covina is a suburb of LA. So, she's the perfect souvenir from my weekend. And since I'm headed to Pasadena this weekend to attend the Pasadena City College Flea Market, I might even find some of her sisters while I'm there. Well, one can always hope.
And while I was galivanting around central Utah, Dad was doing his thing in Utah and Salt Lake Counties, delivering singing Valentines with a quartet from his Barbershop Chorus. Here they are with our Ashley.
Here they are singing to Janell's Grandma George.
Darby at her offices.
They sang to Becca at the Capitol Rotunda where she was attending a Real Estate related convention.
A friend took a video, so I got some screen shots from that.
Here they are at a Payson school singing to our Stake President's wife, Cheryl.
Here's our Hannah feeling the love. In all I think Dad and his quartet did like 15 singing Valentines from Payson to the State Capitol in SLC.
Here's his Finnish Happy Valentine's Day Meme.
I've decided to make a Cousin Quest Alphabet Book, so I have started working on the illustrations.
I screen shotted Johnny from a video of him picking up baby Jesus from the floor and putting him back in the nativity scene. This is what ChatGPT did for me. Sam titled the video, "I got you Baby Jesus."
Not sure this is what Eleanor what's to be remembered for in the grandkids book.
But Eva might like a little Monkeying around to be her memory, after all she does live in Monkey Town.
This one of Adi with her new cat Diesel, her alternate princess role might be nice though.
Our Saturday or should I say Valentines Day was very low key. I priced some things to get into the antique stores next week, actually pricing all my back log, of which I am kinda proud. Dad went to the store for a vegan pizza for dinner, as neither of us was in the mood to fight the crowds at a restaurant on Valentines. Then we watched the "Love Actually Style" movie, Valentines Day, which we both enjoy. He also bought me sugar-free chocolates.
Today we went to church and found out that we are now members of the Arrowhead 2nd ward. We had a High Councilman from our ward who spoke and gave a wonderful talk. He shared a recent quote from our Prophet who first quoted President Nelson, "It will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting and constant influence of the Holy Ghost." then President Oaks added "You live in a season where the adversary has become so effective at disguising truth that if don't have the Holy Ghost, you will be deceived."
After church we got home, and I sent the pictures for the blog to Dad's phone so he could set them up to be used on the computer for the blog ... then he headed to Bountiful to meet at his Mission Mom's home for planning the Finnish Missionary Reunion in conjunction with General Conference on April 3rd. He was gone for five hours. We ended up snacking for dinner while we watched Follow Him.
And in other news, Darby heard that her offer on this house in Meridian was accepted. She is five miles west of Brittany and Mike, so that will be good. Her partner Dallas bought a house in Boise, as he got a job with Micron there. Fortunately, Darby's company has an office in Boise and she was able to transfer there. We will all be sad to not see her as often, and I know that grandkids will be very sad not to see her. Yep, she is the FUN Aunt.
So that was our week, we hope you all made wonderful memories as well.
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